Les Soirées de poche

17 musicians, a 60 people choir, 5 floors, 2 elevators, 1 camera and so many microphones: it’s Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton’s Take Away Show, shot live at the amazing Bradbury Building in Los Angeles.

Bon Iver was there, along with Damien Rice, Aaron and Bryce Dessner, My Brightest Diamond, Mouse on Mars, Kings of Convenience, The Staves, two Alt-J members, and so many others. More than a hundred musicians gathered in Berlin for the most amazing, crazy, free spirit festival you can imagine. We were there too, and we brought back some great videos.

When Pitchfork launched their first European festival in Paris, in october 2011, they invited La Blogotheque to film a series of Take-Away Shows with the bands playing. Here are those movies. In association with Spotify Live.

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Weyes Blood – Some Winters (video)

Behind Weyes Blood there’s Natalie Mering, whom we’ve already seen on guitar with Jackie-O-Motherfucker and in Ariel Pink’s choruses. After a quick visit with Not Not Fun, we see her return again to Mexican Summer with The Innocents, which drops October 20. The New Yorker traded in her ghostly bricolages for polished harmonies full of ornamentation, leaning sometimes toward the likes of Anne Briggs and Vashti Bunyan, but also toward this part of British folklore where it’s completely conceivable to burn people as an offering to the gods.

Today we offer up this preview clip of “Some Winters,” directed by Winston Holmes Case (who’s also worked with Perfume Genius, Wolf Eyes and Tonstartssbandht). It’s a question of living in the forest, chopping wood, making fire and petting wolf-dogs; that which approaches no more and no less the idea that we can make our own happiness, all things considered.